sidneyshafer / sharing-ideas-app

A full stack web application for sharing information between multiple users. Built with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Webpack on the client side, and a Node.js/Express REST API that connects to MongoDB on the server side.

Sharing Ideas Application

A full stack web application for sharing information between multiple users. Built with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Webpack on the client side, and a Node.js/Express REST API that connects to MongoDB on the server side.

App Usage

Install Dependencies

Install dependencies on the front-end and back-end.

npm install
cd client
npm install

Back-end/Express Server

npm start

or (for Nodemon)

npm run dev

Visit: http://localhost:5000

Front-end/Webpack Dev Server

cd client
npm run dev

Visit: http://localhost:5000 To build front-end production files

cd client
npm run build

The production build will be put into the public folder, which is the Express static folder.

Environment Variables

Rename .env-example to .env and add your MongoDB URI to the .env file.

MONGO_URI=YOUR_URI